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Felt Nonfelt Bag

It combines felted and non felted knit sections!!!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/felt-nonfelt-bag • Posted by PlaidCrafter

This just floored me when I saw it: Well, I don't have time right now to knit this baby up, but I do have time to perform some Sweater Surgery! And now to share it with you.

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

1 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
Medium half 2bfelted 2bbag Medium sweater7

Description

This just floored me when I saw it: Well, I don't have time right now to knit this baby up, but I do have time to perform some Sweater Surgery! And now to share it with you.

Instructions

  1. Small before 2bpurple 2bcable 2bsweater

    Here is my "before" wool sweater. Not felted yet.

  2. Small sweater2

    The first step was to cut off a part of the sweater that was not going to be felted. This was a first for me to not felt a whole sweater as I have only done projects that were either all felted or all non felted.

  3. Small sweater 2bafter 2b1 2bwash

    After one washing of the top part you can see how much it shrank. But I wanted it a bit more sturdy so back for another wash and dry.

  4. Small sweater 2b8

    And here are the two parts, the felted one even smaller and thicker.

  5. Small sweater3

    Now I took the non felted parts at the side seams.

  6. Small sweater4

    I then cut the felted section to make the body of the bag.

  7. Small sweater5

    I then sewed the non felted sections to the felted body section of the bag.

  8. Small sweater 2b6

    I then sewed up the bag along the bottom edge. To gather the ends I used a matching ribbon on a large needle and went in and out along the ribbed ends.

  9. Small sweater7

    And here you have it: